Craig> We have around 200TB of dev/QA storage that is across 3 Craig> SAN's. (EMC VMAX and IBM XIV's) Servers are AIX, Solaris and Craig> VMware.
Is this NFS storage, or do you export LUNs to your servers? What are you goals? Craig> We are looking to replace it with cheaper storage. What about performance? Backups? Craig> I would be interested in build-your-own-NAS solutions, but I am Craig> not sure what to start looking at. (Netapp is too expensive) siliconmechanics and supermicro have build your own systems. Are you looking for a single monolithis pool of storage, or can you spread it out across systems like you currently have? Craig> Failing that, what does a cheap SAN look like? NexSAN has some interesting boxes. If you already have EMC and IBM storage, I'm sure it will be much cheaper. But it might not fit your needs which haven't been explained well. Craig> We don't need SAN replication, or many fancy features. I assume you do want reliability though? Nothing like have your dev/QA people sit around wasting time/money because your cheap storage failed. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
